May 29, 2009
John Yembrick
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-0602
john.yembrick-1@nasa.gov
James Hartsfield
Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-483-5111
james.a.hartsfield@nasa.gov
MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-099
NASA'S "ASTRO_MIKE" SET FOR TV INTERVIEWS, WEB APPEARANCE JUNE 3
HOUSTON -- Astronaut Mike Massimino will be available Wednesday, June
3, for media satellite interviews and questions from the public via a
special interactive Internet appearance. He will discuss his space
shuttle flight after returning to Earth May 24 following shuttle
Atlantis' successful servicing mission to NASA's Hubble Space
Telescope.
Massimino will make an interactive Web appearance and answer questions
from the public via Twitter from 3 to 4 p.m. CDT. He will be
available for media interviews from 4 to 5:30 p.m. To participate,
reporters should contact NASA's Johnson Space Center's newsroom at
281-483-5111 by 5 p.m., June 2. Both the Web appearance and media
interviews will be broadcast live on NASA Television.
Massimino is known as Astro_Mike to more than 350,000 people who
followed his STS-125 spaceflight on Twitter. Atlantis' nearly 13-day
mission of almost 5.3 million miles rejuvenated Hubble with
state-of-the-art science instruments designed to improve the
telescope's discovery capabilities by as much as 70 times. The
mission also extended Hubble's lifetime through at least 2014. During
his flight, Massimino, a New York native, performed two spacewalks.
Massimino will take questions in real time exclusively from his
Twitter followers during the hour-long session. His followers should
tweet questions that he will answer live on NASA TV and Ustream.com.
To follow Massimino's twitter updates and submit questions, visit:
http://www.twitter.com/Astro_Mike
In addition to being broadcast and streamed to the Web on NASA TV, the
Internet session and interviews also may be viewed live at:
http://www.ustream.tv/NASA2Explore
The commander of the next space shuttle mission, astronaut Mark
Polansky, also is providing insights on his upcoming flight via
Twitter and taking video questions that he will answer in a special
session from space during his flight. To follow Polansky and submit
questions, visit:
http://www.twitter.com/Astro_127
Follow NASA mission activities on Twitter @NASA, and for a complete
list of all agency missions on Twitter, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/collaborate
For NASA TV downlink information, schedules and to view streaming
video, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv
For more on NASA and its programs, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov
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